Contraction: Baseball's Failed Attempt at Eliminating Two Teams - Michael Grant - Books - Lulu.com - 9781678151744 - February 17, 2020
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Contraction: Baseball's Failed Attempt at Eliminating Two Teams

Michael Grant

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Contraction: Baseball's Failed Attempt at Eliminating Two Teams

In the five-year period from 1995 through 1999, revenues in baseball as a whole had doubled. But the revenue growth was disproportionately higher among large market teams and teams that had recently opened new ballparks. In baseball's salary cap-less economic structure, massive gaps in player payroll between high revenue and low revenue clubs resulted in competitive balance issues. Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and the team owners decided after the 2001 season that the best way to combat this issue was to eliminate it's two lowest revenue clubs, the Montreal Expos and the Minnesota Twins. This strategy wouldn't go as smoothly as baseball had anticipated. Poor planning from the onset coupled with a lawsuit in Minnesota and a three-owner franchise swap between the Expos, Florida Marlins, and Boston Red Sox orchestrated by Commissioner Selig doomed contraction. This is a story of greed and failure in one of North America's major sports leagues.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 17, 2020
ISBN13 9781678151744
Publishers Lulu.com
Pages 242
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 14 mm   ·   358 g
Language English  

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